PTAB Procedural Decisions Report: Non-Merits Based Decisions Rise, Denials Fall — Unified Patents

It was another year of hundreds of procedural denials at the PTAB, as many as any other previous year, save 2020’s record high.  At the same time, the Board ruled on Fintiv and discretionary issues in almost half of all decisions. he dip in the...

Printed Publication Proof – Cross T’s And Dot I’s | JD Supra

On November 30, the PTAB entered its final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. 2BCom, LLC on the patentability of the claims of U.S. Patent...

Proven Networks proven to be PAE in public interest statements — Unified Patents

On January 27, 2022, Unified Patents filed a public interest statement in the ITC on the Proven Networks v. NetApp (inter alia) investigation. Unified focused on Proven Networks' status as a litigation funded, investment-driven NPE run and...

Intel Wins Backing for High Court Review of Patent Board Rule

Carmaker and cable industry groups are joining Unified Patents LLC in supporting Intel Corp.‘s bid for U.S. Supreme Court review of a much-debated U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rule that makes it harder to initiate patent challenges.

Causam Enterprises patent challenged — Unified Patents

On January 18, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 10,396,592 . The ‘592 patent is owned by Causam Enterprises, Inc., an NPE. The ’592 Patent relates to active load management systems and has been ...

CommWorks Solutions reexamination granted — Unified Patents

On December 23, 2021, about one month after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination , the USPTO granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 6,832,249 . The ‘249 patent is...

2021 Patent Dispute Report: Year in Review — Unified Patents

Overview The changing of the guard at the USPTO brings new changes in the patent dispute landscape. With the uncertainty of Fintiv , United States v. Arthrex, Inc., and pandemic recovery, operating companies have been less contentious than...

Unified Patents Inc.’s Real Party-in-Interest and Discretionary Decisions — Unified Patents

For the past nine years, across more than 250 inter partes, post-grant reviews, and other forms of administrative challenge, Unified Patents, LLC has won every real party-in-interest (RPI) challenge, both at institution, final written decision,...

Context Directions Patent Likely Indefinite — Unified Patents

Context Directions, a Jeffrey M. Gross-controlled NPE who had asserted two patents in the Western District of Texas ostensibly related to detecting the context in which a mobile device is used, recently had the USPTO enter a substantially narrow...

Second InterDigital EPO Patent Challenged — Unified Patents

On October 26, 2021, Unified filed an opposition proceeding against another patent owned by InterDigital , EP 1872588 B1 . The EP ’588 patent is part of a family purportedly essential to HEVC and part of the Access Advance patent pool. This...

$3,000 Awarded for Safe Driving prior art — Unified Patents

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Arpit Jain , who received a cash prize of $3,000 for his prior art submission for U.S. Patent 9,713,994 . This patent is owned by Act-IP, an NPE. The '994 patent generally...

$2,500 for Defenders of the American Dream prior art — Unified Patents

On August 27, 2021, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,500 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,621,578 . The patent is owned by the Defenders of the American Dream, LLC, an NPE. Various demand...

PTAB Wrongly Axed Cruise Control Patent, Fed. Circ. Rules - Law360

The Federal Circuit reversed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision invalidating two claims of a cruise control patent that has been asserted against Ford, BMW and Fiat Chrysler, finding Friday that the board overlooked evidence that the claims...

Take Care When Modifying The PTAB's Default Protective Order - Intellectual Property - United States

After an initial denial, the PTAB recently granted Unified Patents' motions for entry of protective order and for seal in Unified Patents, LLC v. Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, IPR2020-01048, Paper 33

World's First Search Engine for Ex Parte Reexaminations — Unified Patents

New Portal Product and Features: Ex Parte Reexaminations

The PTAB’s Misplaced Reliance on Litigation Trial Dates in the NHK Spring/Fintiv Framework — Unified Patents

As discussed in prior blog posts (for example, here and here ), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has increasingly exercised its discretion under 35 U.S.C. § 314 (a) to deny institution of post-grant proceedings when the challenged...